The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-23
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season has nearly all been marketed. 1t is con
! silerably lighter than usual, being only about
100000 boxes
| THOSE three prosperous Kansas cities, Atchl-
son. Topeka and Wichita, are growing very
/ rapidly. The land for a distance of five or ten
! miles around each of them is held at S3,Oo1 70
$4,000 an acre. 1t Is estimated that the corn
crop in Kansas this year will be about 25OOO0,OOO
bushels.
THE color line has been drawn again, but tins
! time it cannot be charged TO Southern military
companies. Gen. c. S. Bentley, general mana
! ger of the international military encampment TO
| be held in Chicago next October, officially an
nounCes that colored troops will not be permitted
| to attend the enCampment
! Patrick PRINCE an old colored man who has
for a score of years blacked boots at the Ebbitt
! House Washington, is dead. He had in his
! time polished the shoes of nearly all the public
men in the country He was a war veteran and
! was covered with scars, of which he was very
proud He died from the effects of the recent
! excessive heat.
| a RECENT report of the Religious Tract So
ciety of England states, in illustration of the
growing taste for Western literature among the
japanese, that when number of present Day
Tracts were sent out the entire consignment
was bought by men in business and the Seamen
in harbor before the Christian part of the COM
munity had time to send in their orders.
THE annual death rates per 900 in the princi-
pal foreign cities, according to the recent
weekly returns communicated to the British
Registrar General, are as follows: Calcutta, %;
Bombay, 21; Madras, 81; Paris, "a; Brussels, %;
Amsterdam, %: Rotterdam, 1S; The Hague, ~;
Copenhagen. %; Stockholm, %; ChriStiania, 10;
st. Petersburg, %; Berlin. 20; Hamburg, %;
Dresden, Il; Breslau, % Munich, %; Vienna, 20;
Prague, 81; Buda-Pcsth, %; Trieste 20; Rome,
81: Venice, 26; Cairo, 49, and Alexandra, ~.
AT the court in Barnes county, Mimi, last
ba Do, nj tp.
| be excused on the ground that his wife was at
home alone with six small children, the oldest
under eleven years of age. He was excused
Up sprang another with the excuse that he had
seven under ten years of age; a third said his
wife had two pairs Of twins and he feared at an
early event would add another pair-and about
all the jury seemed bobbng up when the judge
called a halt. Wheat might be short but he
knew one crop that never failed in that section.
LEWIS P. HATHAWAY, while fishing at Clear
Creek, Mo, some time since, captured six or
seven large bullfrogs. which he brought home
and placed in n pond. Mr. Hathaway has a
turkey with dozen young ones. Some of the
latter it appears, have been disappearing mys
tcriouSly. The other morning Mr.. Hathaway
was watering his horses at the creek. cOnven-
lent to the frog pond, when he heard the mother
turkey making a racket at something in the
creek. On investigation Mir. Hathaway saw a
monster bullfrOg in the water with young tur
key in its mouth, endeavorinE to swallow the
| young fowl, which had attained the age of three
| weeks
JOHN DoLAN, of Pittsburgh, before starting for
Ashtabula the other day, said that he felt sure
| that some accident would befall him on his
journey, and that he particularly dreaded cross.
| ing the Inflated Ashtabula Bridge. Upon his
| arrival in the town he was met by his two
| brothers who were among the members of the
| Murphy Club, encamped about mile east of
| the bridge, and he mentioned to them the fact
of his not wishing to cross the bridge, and that
he would prefer driving around by road. He
was laughed at for his fears, and was induced to
| walk the short distance to the camp, While
| crossing the bridge a freight train came over,
| and they stepped to one side An express train
came rushing along, and John was struck and
| killed.
MAYOR ROCHE of Chicago, is said to bear a
! close physical resemblance to ex-President
Hayes in his earlier years. At the National
! Educational Associations meeting the other
| day Thomas orchestra was playing and the
audience was enthusiastic over the music while
| Mayor Roche, who had to make speech when
| it was oyer, grew very nervous. What Is there
about that tune to go wild over?n he asked
| Now, ! like music, but l can't see anything
| particularly good in the hightoned symphony
| business These men like Beethoven and Strauss
and Bach make me very tired. | must confess
| that like popular tunes-the kind the Spring
| field band played last April when l was escorted
from the capitol over to the Leland Hotel"
| STRANGE MEANS are resorted to in order to
obtain property, but case near Waterloo Ill.
| beats them all 1t appears that the wife of
| Nelson D. Bromley was taken sick and Emily
D. Arndt, a spritualist doctor, was called in.
| Bromley is also a spirtualist The wife died,
| and after her death Emily Arndt the
medium between the dead wife and the living
| husband. While acting such medium. the
dead wife willed that all the property of the
| living husband should be transferred to Emily
| D. Arndt. And, strange to say, the old gentle
| man did it. The transfers of mortgages on
| record at the Register of Deeds give as a con
sideration 81 and for valuable services rendered
| heretofore The entire amount transferred will
| amount to about $4,000.
SOME very odd figures are in use in dancing
The german when particular novelty or variety
is desired. One of these is the walking Church
Tower" The gentlemen in this require hats
| representing a church tower. The ladies receive
| admission tickets. Each tower clock shows a
| time corresponding with lady's ticket. When
| the lady finds the time indicated on her ticket
she pulls the cord on the tower. This rings the
| bell and opens the door, showing the face of her
| partner for the dance. Another odd figure is
known as the 'Tonsorial Parlor." Six razors
| and six napkins are required, Six gentlemen
| are seated in the centre of the room and the
leader hands the napkins TO them, and they
| fasten them around their neckS. He then dis
! tributes the raZorS among the ladies and they
select the gentleman whose number on the nap
| kin corresponds with that on the razor for a
| tonsorial performance, and finish the figure
| with dance.
MGR. PERsIco, who is to discover for the Pope
the truth about Ireland in a six weeks tour
| from diocese to diocese, belongs to the order of
| Capuchins, and is a perfect English scholar. He
! has been in Tartary, Thibet and Afghanstan.
| At Darieeliug he founded and directed the col
| lege, and was the Roman Catholic chaplain of
the British troops. He succeeded in healing the
| Indo-POTtugueSe Schism in 1858, and obtained
considerable concessions from the English gov
eminent. During the Indian mutiny he was
made prisoner and confined in the Fortress of
| Agra. He returned to Europe and collected
large sums 10 repair the losses the missions in
India had sustained In 1859 he was again sent
on a mission to London connected with Catholic
interests. In 1863 Plus TX. sent him TO South
Carolina to pacify the people, who was excited
| by the war Of secession. He took part in the
Hcumencal Council, going afterward to Mala-
bar to settle serious dispute.
THE Philadelphia Press has been collecting
some figures to indicate what the workmen OF
the country have lost during the past six or
eight months by strikes. The greatest of these
was the shoemakers strike in which the Shoe
! ard Leather Reporter estimates that between
S5OlO,0O0 and So, 100000 were lost in wages
Nearly half this sum was lost in Worcester
county, Massachusetts, where more leather is
cut than in any other county in the country as
the result Of five months strike. The vii
mingtOn strike of morocco workers lasted seven
months and cost about S225 600 in wages: the
strikes at Salem aud Peabody about 100000 in
wages. The Chicago builders strike cost
81, 900 in wages to 80 900 workers. The coke